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Convulsions of grief – nay, outraged anger – were being felt all across the City yesterday at the shock news that Stephen Hester has been ousted as chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland. More than £1.5bn was wiped off the value of the taxpayers’ stake in RBS in dismayed reaction to this “politically motivated” [...]
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Labour’s new line on an EU referendum is downright insulting. The party won’t back the In/Out poll, say the Whips, because it would ‘create uncertainty’. Where to begin? If a referendum would ‘create uncertainty’, will Labour oppose holding a general election in 2015? That, surely, creates far more uncertainty, since it will determine not only [...]
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This is from the Telegraph Politics Evening Briefing email, available to anyone who signs up here. AYE DON’T NOE Labour announced that it will tell its MPs they do not need to vote when a Conservative private member’s bill providing for an EU membership referendum by 2017 comes to the Commons next month. Labour spinners [...]
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Michael Gove has been very quiet today. You might have expected him to respond to Ofsted’s landmark inquiry, The most able students: are they doing as well as they should in our non-selective secondary schools?. But no. As far as I can tell, there has been not a peep from the Education Secretary. It would [...]
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I’m all for the National Trust putting on burlesque shows at two of its properties, Trelissick Garden and Killerton. The crucial thing is, visitors will choose to see the half-naked chicks singing and dancing. The evenings are ticketed and only people who want to go will have to see it. The problem with the National Trust’s [...]
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Imagine if an MP stood up in parliament and told, say, an anarchist magazine to stop publishing cartoons mocking government officials. Imagine if that MP then said that if the magazine didn’t comply with this request, the government would “step in and legislate” in order to physically and brutally prevent it from publishing the offending [...]
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They’re feeling nostalgic for Dubya. More Americans view George W Bush favourably than unfavourably, for the first time since he left office. What is going on? Dubya can thank Barack Obama. 2013 was supposed to be the highlight of the Obama presidency, emboldened by re-election and pursuing landmark gun control. Instead, gun control has failed, [...]
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Immigrants: don’t you just love ‘em? They travel to Britain from far-flung lands, coming here to toil away in our shops and offices and homes, paying their taxes and generally making us all better off. Now, I suspect that some people who read this post won’t entirely agree with the paragraph above. I suspect that [...]
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The Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, has waded into the debate about the baby boomers and their alleged hoovering up of all of society’s resources and money. And his comments unwittingly confirm just how dumb generational politics are, just how daft it is to try to understand the problems that face our society in intergenerational [...]
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Many things are being said about the e-cigarette phenomenon, including sensible questions about how healthy they really are and whether or not they’re a gateway to the hard stuff (ie Benson and Hedges). But, for me, there’s a much bigger issue at hand: do they make me look sexy? Full disclosure: cigarettes are evil. They [...]
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